xorrecord: Inquire
5.2 Inquiring drive and media
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-inq
Print to standard output: vendor, model name, and firmware revision
of the drive.
-checkdrive
Print unconditionally that the drive supports burnfree, SAO, and
TAO. Also print the output of option -inq.
-atip
Print the output of -checkdrive, the most capable profile of the
medium in the drive, the list of profiles which are supported by
the drive, whether it is erasable (i.e. can be blanked), the media
manufacturer, and the medium product name.
Profiles are usage models, which are often tied to a particular
media type (e.g. CD-RW), but may also apply to a family of media.
E.g. profile CD-ROM applies to all CD media which contain data.
-toc
Print a table of content of the medium in the drive. The output is
not compatible to cdrecord option -toc, but rather the one of
'xorriso' command -toc. It lists the address, vendor, model name,
and firmware revision of the drive.
About the medium it tells product name and manufacturer, whether
there is already content written, and if so, whether the medium is
closed or appendable. Appendable media can take another session.
The amount of readable and writable data is told. If there are
sessions, then their start block address and size is reported. If
a session contains an ISO 9660 filesystem, then its Volume Id is
reported. If the medium is writable, then the next writable block
address is reported.
If not option *-grow_overwriteable_iso* is given or no ISO 9660
file system is present on the medium, then overwritable media are
reported as being blank. This is due to the fact that they can be
written from scratch without further preparation, and that MMC does
not distinguish between data written by the most previous burn run
and older data which have not been overwritten by that burn run.
Consequently, these media are reported with 0 readable blocks,
although all their writable blocks normally are readable, too.
-msinfo
Print the argument text for option -C of programs mkisofs,
genisoimage, or xorrisofs. It consists of two numbers separated by
a comma.
The first number tells the first block of the first track of the
last recorded session. This is also the address used by default
when operating systems mount a medium with e.g. ISO 9660
filesystem.
The second number tells the next writable address, where
'xorrecord' will begin to write the next session.
This option is only valid for written, appendable media. In all
other cases it will yield no output text but will abort the program
with non-zero exit value.
Info Catalog
xorrecord: DriveAddr
xorrecord: Options
xorrecord: SetBurn